So you want to dig up ancient bones and artifacts in Africa this summer? Well, the National Museums of Kenya, in collaboration with Rutgers U's Program of Human Evolutionary Studies in the Department of Anthropology and the Rutgers Study Abroad program, offer a unique opportunity at a summer field school in Koobi Fora, Kenya, where you'll do just that and a whole lot more.

Come and join us in Northern Kenya for the premier Paleoanthropology Field School in the world! Explore our new focus on Primatology meets Paleoanthropology - new field projects and exciting new visiting professors promise to make this upcoming field school better then ever.

This program offers exciting six-week study abroad experience in Tanzania at the world’s most famous archaeological site. During this intensive field course students will learn fundamentals of geological processes and develop skills in fossil and archaeological exploration by receiving first-hand field experience including excavations, mapping stratigraphic sections and conduct archaeological experiments. Field instruction will take students to nearby Ngorongoro Crater and Serengeti where their diverse savanna ecosystems provide important modern analogs for understanding the relationship between the Earth’s systems, cultural landscapes and hominin evolution in natural environments. Ngorongoro and Serengeti are world famous Safari destinations and students will experience this lifetime study safari.

he University of Guam, in collaboration with the Archaeological Studies Program-University of the Philippines, the San Carlos University, and the National Museum of the Philippines, is offering a summer archaeological field school. The field school will provide participants intensive training in archaeological site excavation, mapping, and artifact analysis and interpretation as well as training in landscape analysis. The course is open to undergraduate and graduate students from any university, who will earn 6 University of Guam credits. The project is co-directed by Dr. Stephen Acabado, Assistant Professor, University of Guam, Dr. John Peterson, Associate Professor, University of Guam, Dr. Grace Barretto-Tesoro, Associate Professor, Archaeological Studies Program, University of the Philippines, and Prof. Jojo Bersales, University of San Carlos Kabilin Heritage Studies Center. Dr. Acabado and Dr. Peterson will serve as the UOG Instructors of Record.

The Ifugao Archaeological Project returns to the Old Kiyyangan Village, Kiangan, Ifugao and initiates investigations on the Hapao Rice Terraces Cluster, Hungduan, Ifugao. The IAP hopes to fully document an early Ifugao Village (ca. 800 years old) and contribute to heritage conservation efforts in Ifugao.

Deadline 2012-04-30he aim of this field school is to give students an opportunity to earn undergrad credits through a structured program of learning and practicing archaeological skills in a Southeast Asian field setting. The research aims of the field school are to contribute to the understanding of the coastal archaeology of peninsula Thailand by testing hypotheses about hunter-gatherer technology and substance behavior changes in response to Holocene sea level changes. We aim to teach students practical and theoretical details of detailed site recording, sample collection and scientific archaeological excavation in tropical coastal environments. We will also teach post-fieldwork skills such as laboratory analysis, reporting and curation of data.

Deadline 2014-04-29Anthropology 225 offers an introduction to archaeological and ethnographic field methods as currently practiced in Yukon—that is, as an integrated program of documentation of local culture-history with a strong community presence in the research activities. In this approach, archaeological survey and excavation is closely articulated and connected with related ethnographic enquiry. Fieldwork in 2014 will be within the traditional territories of the White River First Nation It will include continued archaeological investigations of the Pleistocene era Little John site and regional survey and excavations in Yukon and Alaska.

ADMAT & ADMAT-FRANCE are running a new Maritime Archaeological Project during 2016 to search and locate a 1750's shipwreck in the historic Monte Cristi Bay. This is a very “hands on” field school teaching the practical aspects of maritime archaeological field work. Full information about these projects can be found on ADMAT's website www.admat.org.uk

The Humboldt State University (HSU) Belize Archaeology Field School is a transect survey project. The project investigates hinterland communities located between two Maya administrative site centers: Dos Hombres and Gran Cacao. Field school students will receive training in archaeological excavation, field survey, total mapping station procedures, and laboratory analysis. Additionally, students will have the opportunity to visit Maya sites such as Lamanai and La Milpa. The field school offers two upper division courses: ANTH 306 Cultures of Belize and ANTH 357 Field Archaeology.

Deadline 2016-07-17The Maya Research Program is a U.S.-based non-profit organization (501C3) that sponsors archaeological and ethnographic research in Middle America. Each summer since 1992, we have sponsored archaeological fieldwork in northwestern Belize and ethnographic research in the village of Yaxunah, Mexico. The Maya Research Program is affiliated with the University of Texas at Tyler.

This summer marks MRP’s Blue Creek Archaeological Project’s 25th archaeological field season in northwestern Belize. MRP is proud to support a vast range of talented researchers from across the globe under this project’s umbrella. Our research associates include not only archaeologists, but also soil scientists, geoarchaeologists, geographers, conservationists, cultural anthropologists, bioarchaeologists, and botanists.

Survey and Preservation Project 2013. Field school and experience in the Ancient capital of the Bosnian Kingdom. Survey research, Mapping, Geoscanning techniques, Archaeo Photography and Laboratory Experience. International experience joining students from all over Europe.

The field school program schedule includes expeditions in Strandzha Mountain and its coastline. The team and the participants will be based at the town of Ahtopol near the state border of Bulgaria with the Republic of Turkey. Two study trips are planned: 1.Trip to Istanbul - Constantinople - the capital of three empires and metropolis of two continents. 2.Expedition in Astika Mountain in today's European Turkey.

DigVentures is launching the first ever crowdfunded and crowdsourced excavation, on the internationally important, iconic Bronze Age site of Flag Fen. We will be inviting people to join us – either via a robust web platform from the comfort of their armchairs (in real time), or with their sleeves rolled up on the site itself. This is archaeology in your hands! We are offering the opportunity for students to join us on a first come first served basis, with options for participation from 1 day to 3 weeks. Each evening will feature lectures from some of the biggest names in Archaeology, including Professor Martin Carver, Dr Francis Pryor, Professor Tim Darvil, Professor Vince Gaffney, Dr Ben Roberts, Dr Clive Waddington, Julian Richards, Dr John Gater and many others. This promises to be an extraordinary field school experience

Following four seasons of excavations, the Barcombe Roman Villa Project will continue in 2012 in Church Field where the remains of a large Roman bath house have been revealed. The excavations will again be a joint project directed by David Rudling of the University of Sussex and Chris Butler of the Mid Sussex Field Archaeological Team. University of Sussex training courses will form part of this research project. All courses are suitable either for beginners or for those with some experience, ie those considering archaeology at university (minimum age 16), amateur archaeologists, undergraduates, and those undertaking university extra-mural courses in archaeology.

Tensions between Dacia and Rome always ran high. This came to a head in the beginning of the 2nd Century AD, when Trajan led two campaigns across the Danube to attack Dacia. The war was hard fought, and the Roman suffered heavy losses, but in the end, Trajan claimed Dacia for the Roman Empire, and returned to Rome to celebrate his victory. But what of the people of Dacia? Now that they were in the Roman Empire, how did their lives change? How did they interact with the Roman Army that was left behind? For a long time, these questions were ignored, but current archaeological work is looking to answer just these questions. The Cumidava Archaeological Research Project (CARP) is seeking to better understand what is occurring in Dacia after the Roman conquest. It focuses on small scale interactions between Roman soldiers and Dacian civilians, in and around the Cumidava Castrum, home of the VI Cohorts Cumidavensis, on the Transylvanian Limes. CARP seeks to understand what it actually meant to the average person to now be subjected to colonial Roman rule in a newly formed province of the Empire. Our project addresses questions of creolization and dynamic interaction at different scales, exploring the mechanisms of integration of several distinct groups forced to coexist in overlapping environments.

Deadline 2014-04-30During the Roman colonial occupation, southern Transylvania shows a very dynamic and intensive synthesis of Roman provincial life, where a multitude of processes of colonization and creolization take place side by side. Prior to the Roman conquest of 102AD, it was also the most densely populated region of the Dacian Kingdoms.Our project seeks to explore and understand the integration of all the structural provincial elements present along the main Roman axes of communication and transport. Our research area is in the immediate proximity of both the imperial road and the Mures River, the extremely important gold deposits of the Carpathian Gold Mountains, and the political and military centers of Sarmizegetusa Ulpia Traiana and Apulum. We will continue the excavation of the well preserved structures identified during our 2013 field season.

The 2011 field season will take place at the late Chalcolithic to Early Bronze Age flint mining settlement site at Piatra Tomii (Răcătău village, Alba County). We will continue to investigate the flint mining and processing techniques used by the Cotofeni culture. We will also resume research on the hillside house discovered in 2009.

The 2010 field season will take place again at the late Chalcolithic to Early Bronze Age flint mining settlement site at Piatra Tomii (Racatau village, Alba county). The research this year will investigate flint mining techniques used during the Chalcolithic and Bronze Age as well as flint processing workshops at the settlement, particularly related to the methodology and equipment used by the Cotofeni people. Students will learn and practice topographic surveying, fieldwalking, general excavation methods, magnetometry surveying. At the camp site students will practice artefact drawing and pottery reconstruction methods.

Deadline 2012-07-01The 2012 field season will take place again at the late Chalcolithic to Early Bronze Age flint mining settlement site at Piatra Tomii (Racatau village, Alba county). The research this year will investigate flint mining techniques used during the Chalcolithic and Bronze Age as well as flint processing workshops at the settlement, particularly related to the methodology and equipment used by the Cotofeni people. Students will learn and practice topographic surveying, fieldwalking, general excavation methods, magnetometry surveying. At the camp site students will practice artefact drawing and pottery reconstruction methods.

This project aims at retrieving the ancient environment, conditions and people that generated the largest deposit of bronze artifacts in the world. We will try to ascertain what drove them to place over 15,000 functional tools, weapons, jewelry in that particular spot. We will also explore the mechanisms of transition from the Late Bronze Age to the Early Iron Age in central Transylvania, Romania to see if they are responsible of this depositional pattern.

Deadline 2013-03-30Life by the Imperial Road: Roman Imperial Provincial Landscape Strategies: Excavation and survey of Roman structures situated near one on the main Roman Imperial Roads in Transylvania (Dacia), Romania. We are interested in the dynamic relationship between the major axis of communication, the people and the landscape.

Deadline 2013-03-29Excavation and survey of one of the most important sites of the Northern Thracian world: the Iron Age Dacian fortified acropolis associated with the major religious Dacian complex of Augustin, in a context of extensive proto-urban settlement, religious and military structures. Recent Bronze Age finds also point to the presence of a temple complex as shown by the uncovering of exceptional offerings.

Two new positions have opened up for the Neolithic excavations at the Ness of Brodgar, Orkney, Scotland. The phenomenally preserved site in the heart of Orkney's UNESCO World Heritage district, is changing our understanding of the Neolithic. Predating Stonehenge by some 500 years, this multiphased temple complex is at the center of a culture that had profound influence on Neolithic development throughout the British Isles. The site has been featured on the BBC, in Science magazine and other national and international publications. Willamette University's program is the only field school that provides access to US-based students.

Since the 80s, archaeologists have been uncovering the remote past at the valleys of Alcoià-El Comtat, an isolated, ten-mile long valley that rises dramatically from near sea level to over 1000 m.a.s.l. This area contains evidence of the important transition that occurred as their prehistoric inhabitants began to cultivate plants and to herd animals. Among the almost 200 sites recorded dating back to Neolithic times, the most remarkable is the Mas d'Is. Mas d'Is has the oldest evidence of agriculture in the Iberian peninsula and complex structures.

Since the 80s, archaeologists have been uncovering the remote past at the valleys of Alcoià-El Comtat, an isolated, ten-mile long valley that rises dramatically from near sea level to over 1000 m.a.s.l. This area contains evidence of the important transition that occurred as their prehistoric inhabitants began to cultivate plants and to herd animals. Among the almost 200 sites recorded dating back to Neolithic times, the most remarkable is the Mas d'Is. Mas d'Is has the oldest evidence of agriculture in the Iberian peninsula and complex structures.

We have five placements available for our 2016 season in Jersey, Channel Islands. This means for the first time we can take students beyond our own universities with us as we investigate the exceptional site at Les Varines, Magdalenian settlement site approximately 15,000 years old.

We are a new fieldschool in Sussex with various venues and courses. We aim to provide training for amateurs and professionals alike as well as offering volunteer opportunities at our excavation site during July. Please see our web-site www.sussexarchaeology.co.uk

Deadline 2012-05-01An introduction to archaeological and ethnographic field methods as currently practiced in Yukon—that is, as an integrated program of documentation of local culture-history with a strong community presence in the research activities. Principal excavations of 12000 to 14,000 years old Beringian deposits at the Little John site, archaeological survey around the Yukon - Alaska borderlands, and ethnographic work with the White River First Nation of Beaver Creek.

Deadline 2013-03-11The Adelphi University Department of Anthropology will initiate summer 2013 archaeological field reconnaissance and site excavations at multiple sites in the Susitna River valley. In addition to participation in an ongoing research program, students will experience unspoiled Alaska wilderness, acquire important technological skills using state-of-the-art research technologies, and learn the fundamentals of archaeological excavation.

Students enrolled in this field school will investigate a cluster of ~7000-year-old archaeological sites situated near an ancient beach of Lake Superior. Advanced training in archaeological survey, excavation, and select geoarchaeological methods will be provided.

Yukon College offers a two course, 9 credit university transfer field program in field and analytical methods in subarctic archaeology and ethnography, combining 6 weeks of in field training based at the Little John archaeology site on the Yukon-Alaska border and 2 weeks of pre and post fieldwork theory and analytics. Working closely with members of the local aboriginal communities, the course sets out to document the prehistory, traditional culture and history, and contemporary life of the field locality. Students undertake regional archaeological survey and excavations. Local cultural experts provide instruction in regional culture, oral history, mythology, and language. Tours of and participation in Alaskan projects will provide a broader regional perspective on aboriginal culture and history. The 2015 field program will focus on continued excavations at the Little John site north of Beaver Creek, Yukon, that contains multiple components from circa 14,000 years ago to the Historic period and one week of survey and excavations at the Tok Overlook site near Tok, Alaska in collaboration with Tanacross Native Village and US Army – Fort Wainwright.

The field school focuses primarily on the excavation of a 19th century frontier military outpost, but includes training in all basic archaeological skills applicable to prehistoric and historic sites. Additional training includes GIS/GPS, total station, LIDAR, etc. as site requires.

Access to the island is by boat only. Once on the island, students will reside in tents and communal style living with shared meals and duties. Bathroom and kitchen facilities will be on-site. ​ The south end of the island will be the focus of the 2014 field school. The site contains archaeological midden deposits dating from Archaic up to plantation period components. ​ Our objectives during this summer of field work is to document and record this interesting multi-component site as it is actively eroding into the creek bank.​ ​ Students will learn about research design and implementation, basic archaeological field methods, shallow geophysical survey, topographic mapping, laboratory methods, and the archaeology of the Southeastern United States. ​ During the field school students will gain skills in shovel test survey, block excavations, and participate in a large-scale shallow geophysical survey using a RM-85 resistance meter as well as a SIR 3000 ground penetrating radar

Cooper's Ferry Archaeology Field School, led by Dr. Loren Davis, will be returning to resume excavations at the Cooper's Ferry site in the summer of 2015. The Cooper's Ferry site is located in the beautiful lower Salmon River canyon of western Idaho and contains some of the earliest evidence of humans in the Pacific Northwest. Join us this coming summer to learn professional archaeological excavation, recordation, and field curation skills as we seek clues about the first peoples of Far Western North America. Students will also learn about landscape and site-level approaches to geoarchaeological study. Apply soon to be a part of the 2015 OSU expedition to the Cooper's Ferry site. Current OSU students and non-OSU students are welcome to apply.

Deadline 2016-06-24Cooper's Ferry Archaeology Field School, led by Dr. Loren Davis, will be returning to resume excavations at the Cooper's Ferry site in the summer of 2015. The Cooper's Ferry site is located in the beautiful lower Salmon River canyon of western Idaho and contains some of the earliest evidence of humans in the Pacific Northwest. Previous excavations show that the Cooper's Ferry site contains a long record of repeated human occupation, beginning with a Western Stemmed Tradition assemblage associated with radiocarbon dates of 11,370 and 11,410 14C years BP. These dates are controversial and, if true, support arguments that peoples bearing the Clovis tradition were not the first to settle the Far West. Our upcoming work at the site will build upon the exciting information collected already and will seek to address many archaeological questions related to the evolution of technology, economic patterns, and environmental conditions during the late Pleistocene to early Holocene period (ca. 13,000-13,000 cal BP). Ultimately, the OSU excavations at Cooper's Ferry will hopefully contribute critical data to answer many questions about the first peoples of the Pacific Northwest and, by extension, the Americas. Join us this coming summer to learn professional archaeological excavation, recordation, and field curation skills as we seek clues about the first peoples of Far Western North America. Students will also get an introduction to landscape and site-level approaches to geoarchaeological study--perspectives that are important in the search for and study of the First Americans. Apply soon to be a part of the 2015 OSU expedition to the Cooper's Ferry site. Current OSU students and non-OSU students are welcome to apply.

The OSU Archaeology and Geoarchaeology Field School, led by Dr. Loren Davis, will be returning to resume excavations at the Cooper's Ferry site during the summer of 2014. The Cooper's Ferry site is located in the beautiful lower Salmon River canyon of western Idaho and contains some of the earliest evidence of humans in the Pacific Northwest. Current OSU students and non-OSU students are welcome to apply.

Join the 2012 OSU Archaeology and Geoarchaeology Field School at the Cooper's Ferry site as we continue to study early human occupation of western North America. Students will learn state-of-the-art excavation, recordation and field curation techniques, standard geoarchaeological field methods, and will be introduced to site survey and monitoring activities.

The Arizona State University Kampsville Field School is a 9 credit hour field school located at the Center for American Archeology in Kampsville, IL, June 9 - July 19, 2013. Bioarchaeology and Human Osteology, Field Archaeology and Geophysical Testing, and Geomatics (GIS, Geophysics, and Geoarchaeology) options are available. Program tracks are concurrent, and students may enroll in only one program per year.

The Carson Mounds Archaeological field program provides students the unique opportunity to learn archaeological field and lab methods while actually in the field working on a Tulane University research project. Students will also learn about Mississippi’s unique history and have the opportunity to visit authentic and historic blues venues. Based out of Clarksdale, Mississippi, students and faculty will visit many cultural and historical landmarks, and learn firsthand, what it means to be a “Mississippian”.

The field school will divide time each session between excavations on a Paleoindian camp site (4th season of work)in Jefferson, NH and survey and excavations at the Mt. Jasper quarry and workshops in Berlin, NH.

The Jefferson investigations will focus on areas of anticpated construction and the Mt. Jasper investigations will seek to identify additional source areas and evaluate at least one associated lithic workshop.

Deadline 2015-04-15The Office of Contract Archeology and the UNM Department of Anthropology are offering an archaeological field school at the Water Canyon Paleoindian Site near Socorro, New Mexico in the Summer of 2015. Research goals include: the continued investigation of the Late Paleoindian and Cody Complex bison bone beds; the collection of paleoenvironmental proxy data; and mechanical soil coring.

In 2013, the University of Oregon Archaeological Field School will be at Rimrock Draw Rockshelter. Rimrock Draw is a stemmed point site near Riley, Oregon. This site has already produced some exciting finds and by attending the 2013 field school you can be a part of this important investigation.

Hands-on training in archaeological field methods in the Lower Pecos Canyonlands of southwest Texas, a remote area with an unparalleled 13,000 year record of hunter-gatherer life found in rockshelters with extraordinary organic preservation and vivid rock art. The field school will be focused on developing the essential research skills required in traditional archaeology. The field research will take place in and around Eagle Nest Canyon (ENC). This mile-long box canyon tributary of the Rio Grande near Langtry, Texas houses several well-known sites, such as Bonfire Shelter and Eagle Cave. Field school investigations will include work in a smaller rockshelter within the canyon and in a plant baking facility (burned rock midden) at the head of the canyon.

The 2013 Archaeological Field School will be based at the SHUMLA School, which is located 50 miles west of Del Rio, Texas, within the Lower Pecos Canyonlands. The Lower Pecos contains hundreds of rock shelters, most of which contain archaeological deposits and many of which contain some of the finest examples of prehistoric rock art in the world, dating to over 4,000 years old. No other region in the Americas is known to contain so many well‐preserved hunter‐gatherer sites in such a small area.

The field school focuses primarily on the excavation of an historic site, but includes training in all basic archaeological skills applicable to prehistoric and historic sites. The site is a 19th century frontier military outpost.

Deadline 2013-03-29The "Rocky Mountain High" Field School enters its 13th year this summer. We will be based in the high country between beautiful Lake City and Gunnison, Colorado. Students will learn all aspects of archaeological survey and excavation, the latter by helping test-excavate a late Paleoindian (8,000 or so year-old) site. In addition to 3 10-day field sessions, students will also participate in 2 10-day lab sessions on the University of Oklahoma campus, where they will learn to curate and analyze artifacts and write up their results. Four-day breaks allow students to sample all the great recreation opportunities in southwestern Colorado and later, southern Oklahoma. TO APPLY, CONTACT DR. PITBLADO FOR AN APPLICATION FORM.

The Nancy Patterson Archaeological Project was the vision of Mark Evans and his strong commitment to preserve while conducting cutting edge research and education about the privately owned Nancy Patterson Site. His goal was to see the site used to bridge the gap between the public and scientific community by providing a common educating experience and appreciation for our prehistoric American History. Over the years it has continued with the support of private indiduals. The 24 acre site circles the Nancy Patterson Butte that juts up from the Montezuma Canyon bottom. As discussed at previous Pecos Conferences there is a continuous occupational sequence spanning Basketmaker III through Pueblo III periods. The major features are the Nancy Patterson Village located at the southern base of the butte and large circular plaza on the butte top. Spirit Bird Cave which lies to the north just up canyon is closely associated with this site. Studies over the past 30 years have confirmed the site to be a center of major Anasazi importance and it is listed on the National Registor of Historic Places. This year the site will be set up for tours during the Pecos Conference.

The 2012 Utah State University Archaeological Field School will be conducting survey and their 3rd year of excavation at high-altitude hunter-gatherer village sites in Wyoming's Wind River Range. The school will introduce you to all the key elements of archaeological fieldwork while conducting cutting-edge archaeological research in some of most picturesque settings in the western United States.